born Dec. 12 [Dec. 23, Old Style], 1799, St. Petersburg, Russia
died June 11 [June 23], 1852, Marsciano, near Rome, Papal States [Italy]

original name Charles Bruleau , Bryullov also spelled Briullov, Bryulov,
Brülov, Brüllov , or Brülow Russian painter who combined technical
proficiency and classical academic training with a Romantic spontaneity
to produce some of the liveliest examples of Russian art of the period.

Bryullov was descended from French Huguenots, and his father was a
sculptor. (The family name was Russified in 1821.) Bryullov was educated
at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (1809–21). He studied in
Italy from 1823, painting his best-known work, the monumental “Last Day
of Pompeii” (1830–33), while there; it brought him an international
reputation. Though he painted other large canvases with historical
subjects, none was as successful as“ Pompeii.” Much of his continuing
reputation rests on his more intimate portraits and his watercolours and
travel sketches.

Self-Portrait

Vespers1825

Italian Midday 1827

An Interrupted Date
1827

Girl Gathering Grapes in a
Suburb of Naples

Portrait of K. A. and M. Ya.
Narishkin 1827

Portrait of G. N. and V. A.
Olenin

Scene

Portrait of Grand Duchess
Elena Pavlovna and Her Daughter
1830

Italian Woman Heavy with a
Child Examining a Shirt and Her Husband Making a Cradle

Mother Awoken by Her Crying
Child 1831

Bathsheba

A Turkish Girl
1837

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